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We will not be discussing the criminal levels of violence so common in computer games today. We will not be discussing how the creators of Halo have taken this to a new level, preying on children’s insecurities to offer than an outlet through the scope of a futuristic rifle. We will save the news reports of mental neurosis, obesity, suicide and even murder associated with the gaming lifestyle for another time. These are simply matters of public record, issues that a moral society will either grapple with or not if we care in the least about projecting those uniquely American values of justice and human decency into the future.

No, today let us pull back the layers of secrecy to reveal what Halo, one of this nation’s most controversial video games, is teaching young people about God and socialist revolution. Never before have we encountered something so unquestionably dangerous as this noxious fantasy scene of simian jack bootery and salacious jezebels conspiring to deliriously manipulate our fragile, lost teens who, in their heart of hearts, may be simply yearning for a warm embrace and a reason to live. Indeed, the story that follows will not be a pretty one.

Plot: Egged on by a half-naked female handler named Cortana, a chemically-enhanced warrior fights against a theocratic alliance called “The Covenant” descended from the heavens. Master Chief joins gangs and employs an arsenal of implausible weapons to viciously wipe out all the ancestors of “the Ark” in an effort to cement the power of a global government called the UNSC.

Setting: Massive structures of fascist design dot dangerous Asiatic landscapes. The hyper-real graphics are drawn with jarring fluorescent colors. This future world is on the cusp of the ultimate judgment, reminiscent of Biblical End Times. There is no grey area here. You’re either lock step with Master Chief’s agenda of anarchy or you die.

Soundtrack: Heavy metal slasher rock at ear-piercing levels.

Influence: For over a decade, this has been the most popular game on the planet. It has spawned children’s books, comic series, costume festivals, television shows, fan videos, spin-off games and a type of animated pornography known as Machinera. Along the way, it has sold over 100 million copies and has made its creators billions of dollars.

One may ask why the story of Halo has never been told before. Could it be the enormous power that the entertainment industry wields over the public discourse? Could it be those billions of dollars that companies like Microsoft throw around Congress? Or could it be just one small cog in the grand scheme of things that international banking cartels use to sell us on the illusion of those frail dollars crumpled damply in our pockets?

A more immediate truth is that the game is extremely off-putting and complicated for adults. Its component “Xbox” shooting console is expensive. And even when one plays the game, it takes incredible effort to understand its larger meaning. Only those who become truly addicted to Halo discover its deepest, most hidden levels.

To get there, you traverse places with names like Blood Gulch, Valhalla, Tombstone and Warlock Wizards. You arm yourself with flamethrowers and plasma cannons, reticule booms and fusion cores. You join gangs of real-life players all across the world wide web and embark on quests to the screams of “Kill! Faster! Kill!” The scene is littered with the skulls of the dead, skulls that give you narcotic boosts of insane power as you tear the heads off your opponents and feast on their gory innards.

The woman Cortana hovers behind, whispering conspiracies in your ear. She uses her big-breasted flirtatiousness to trick you to take on suicidal missions. She may be little more than a cliché of the Cold War communist agent handling the “useful idiots” of the West, but she is extremely effective.

The more you play the game, the more dehumanized you become. You are simply a robot after all, a robot of bits and bytes manifested on a television screen. Compassion and love are cast aside. You have become a killing machine whose sole purpose in life is to crush religion into a bloody mound of puss and gristle for the sake of the End Times collective.

Is this truly the fate that awaits us? How can we so casually cast aside the wisdom of our Founding Fathers? They had a vision of freedom and faith that gave birth to the greatest nation this planet has ever known. Since the 1960s, we have seen our most sacred institutions destroyed in the name of “progress.” Radical sexuality, communism, drugs and inner city violence are the reprehensible results of liberalism’s assault on the primacy of patriotism and family values. Today let us consider how far these people will go to destroy those amongst us who cherish God’s plan for America and our inviolable responsibility to keep the world safe.

Halo is simply that first, furtive step on the long march to the American Armageddon. Yet if we educate ourselves and arm our homefronts with faith, there is always hope. You might even begin by giving your teen that warm, heartfelt hug he so desperately craves.

CHRISTIAN SYMBOLOGY OF HALO

Covenant: Represents the Evangelical Christians of America, those who hold sacred the Biblical covenant to live in harmony with the Gospels. They are depicted as monstrous and fanatical and children are forced to kill them.

Forerunners: These are the Gods who created the videogame. Employing deism to describe our Almighty is a backhanded way to insult the One True God of Christianity.

Halo: God’s Kingdom of Grace on earth that players try desperately to escape. What is outside this circle of saintly light? The answer is the emptiness of atheism and nihilism.

The Ark: In the Bible, Noah’s Ark is the protector of all forms of life yet here it means a star wars space satellite with the capacity to launch extinction. Without any doubt, this contradiction of imagery exposes the radical hatred of true American values in Halo.

Ontological Imperialism: Halo nags you to ponder the ultimate meaning of the game and thereby the ultimate meaning of your existence. In doing so, it is hijacking the traditional role of Christianity in a young person’s education. Sadly, the answer that Halo offers to this question is that you must live out your life in the here and now, destroying every remnant of the Christian faith and fomenting a New World Order in which everyone is godlike.

“God is dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?” –Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science.

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Seeing as you submitted your ridiculous comment about 20 seconds after this article was published, I think it’s safe to say that you neither read nor comprehended my investigative work. There is a world out there beyond your simplistic grasp. Why don’t you open your eyes and give it a look?

You really aren’t helping yourself with these lies. I really shouldn’t respond to you since it just seems to be enabling your issues. It’s too bad that we’re not discussing the life you would like to live and what you need to get there.

Please don’t act so arrogant. It does not suit you, or anyone else for that matter. Humility is a beautiful thing.

I don’t know why you’re so obsessed with having the last word with me on this topic, but it sounds like you might be feeling a bit inadequate? I’ve known many people with chips on their shoulders and it really weighs down their souls. Maybe you could take an inventory of yourself and your goals and we can find out what you’re really lashing out against. Is your life unfulfilling? Do you seek answers but not find them? Don’t be afraid to admit you’re having a spiritual crisis. I have been there myself!

Let me conclude on the issue of playing the video game mentioned in this report. What do you think about sports writers? Are you troubled by the fact that they do not play the sports they report on? Must I suffer from cancer to report on the issues of cancer in the press? Can I write about crime if I am not a criminal?

Those people who write about those things do real research. You on the other hand don’t. You have gotten many things in this article wrong and I have pointed some out already. Those other people, are journalists. You? You’re a fake. A phony.

“Please don’t act so arrogant. It does not suit you, or anyone else for that matter. Humility is a beautiful thing.”

Why don’t you try it some time, might do you a world of good.

“I don’t know why you’re so obsessed with having the last word with me on this topic, but it sounds like you might be feeling a bit inadequate?”

It’s to shut you up. You’re wrong on so many levels that there’s no room for debate, yet you will somehow find a way to make one, just because you think you’re somehow more knowledgeable about a subject you literally admitted to not knowing anything about.

“I’ve known many people with chips on their shoulders and it really weighs down their souls.”

Like yours, if you had a soul.

“Maybe you could take an inventory of yourself and your goals and we can find out what you’re really lashing out against. Is your life unfulfilling? Do you seek answers but not find them? Don’t be afraid to admit you’re having a spiritual crisis. I have been there myself!”

I’m fairly certain no one needs an out-of-shape, out-of-touch old man to help them decide on what to do with their life.

“Let me conclude on the issue of playing the video game mentioned in this report. What do you think about sports writers? Are you troubled by the fact that they do not play the sports they report on? Must I suffer from cancer to report on the issues of cancer in the press? Can I write about crime if I am not a criminal?”

Except they spend years and years and years studying the subject, knowing the in’s and out’s of it, and getting as close to it as they possibly can. You spend 10 minutes on a search engine pulling random pictures and then spend an hour formulating bullshit.

I am sorry to inform you that your comprehension of reali life journalism is laughable. Years and years and years studying? Are they allowed to publish anything during those years and years and years of study? Or must they wait until a decade passes? And what about my example of cancer or crime, no response? How many years does it take a sport writer before he can write about a sport like curling, for example, in your expert opinion?

You surely must have a problem with all the talking heads on MSNBC. I doubt they’ve spent years studying the dozens of subjects they report on during each show. I guess we should just disregard all journalism for that matter, since it fails to meet your exacting standards. Well, all except the gaming news over at the videogame blogs. Those people are the true experts on culture, politics and teen hobbies.

I’m not going you my life goals for some bullshit “evaluation” that will most likely end with you telling me to find God. You want to know what I’m really lashing out at? The stupidity of you and your cult, not hard to figure that out

I am not having a spiritual crisis, I already had one and look which side I picked, Atheism. As for the other aspects of my life, I’ve only had ONE regret and it has nothing to do with my life choice, style, or goal.

The day I ask you for help is the day hell freezes over…but since hell dosen’t exist, let’s just say NEVER

“I am sorry to inform you that your comprehension of reali life journalism is laughable. Years and years and years studying? Are they allowed to publish anything during those years and years and years of study? Or must they wait until a decade passes?”

In this day and age, we have blogs and people try to get their name out as much as possible. The difference between you and a legitimate journalist is that they don’t just go with hearsay as their source of information, and they’re a hell of a lot more capable in doing research than you could ever hope to be.

“And what about my example of cancer or crime, no response? How many years does it take a sport writer before he can write about a sport like curling, for example, in your expert opinion?”

You want a response? How’s this: spend some actual time and dedicate yourself into doing the research, and actually LEARNING about it instead of just bullshitting things at your leisure.

“You surely must have a problem with all the talking heads on MSNBC. I doubt they’ve spent years studying the dozens of subjects they report on during each show. I guess we should just disregard all journalism for that matter, since it fails to meet your exacting standards. Well, all except the gaming news over at the videogame blogs. Those people are the true experts on culture, politics and teen hobbies.”

I don’t bother watching MSNBC actually. Amongst all news stations there’s a bias, so I only take what I hear with a grain of salt. Unlike you, I’m willing to see both sides of the story, as long as both sides aren’t trying to completely fuck the other side over so much that there isn’t any truth to the matter. As for disregarding journalism on a whole, you’re seriously just putting words in my mouth now. Seems to be the only thing you’re good at, really. Like I said, real journalist spend time to study their specific areas, at least those that claim they go in-depth on a subject. You spend a grand total of two hours coming up with your bullshit, and most if that is just typing and formatting the garbage. You’re trying to equate yourself with an actual journalist, when such a person doesn’t make nearly half the mistakes you do.

Stephenson please just stop your only making your self look like a bigger ass and idiot
as for halo
covenent-group of alien races trying to eradicate humans
the weapons are a bit strange but the strange ones are alien tech

I like Halo enough, pretty decent story if you actually pay attention to the cutscenes.

I’m not big on FPS games though.

And actually the game is pretty reminiscent of Theology. The Covenant are Zealots, and while faith isn’t itself a bad thing, it’s when that faith is blind and unquestioning. true believers ask why, but ask why in the name of their God(s)

Children do not understand the Jungian influences at work here. Smug and corpulent, they chide those that sound the alarm. I am proud and speechless with this work. How can American’s not take notice of the enemies at our gates?

Let’s think about this. Do you honestly believe that there are “Jungian influences at work here?” You are an idiot. there is nothing more to the game than killing aliens. No secret levels. No secret agenda.

“Could it be those billions of dollars that companies like Microsoft throw around Congress?”

I thought you microdroids liked Microsoft?
You told August not to take my advice on the open-source RSS reader, so you won’t use anything open-source apparently (no Linux, BSD).
You’ve mentioned several times that you hate Apple, so Macs are out of the question. How are you typing this!?

“Plot: Egged on by a half-naked female handler named Cortana, a chemically-enhanced warrior fights against a theocratic alliance called “The Covenant” descended from the heavens. Master Chief joins gangs and employs an arsenal of implausible weapons to viciously wipe out all the ancestors of “the Ark” in an effort to cement the power of a global government called the UNSC.”

Cortana is a computer. Not a human. She can’t be half-naked when she has no cloths to began with. Yes, Master Chief is a enhanced warrior. The Covenant didn’t descend from the heavens. They came out of spaceships from other planets. Master Chief didn’t join any gangs, they were military from the government on Earth. The only reason Chief is killing them all is because UNSC and the Covenant have been at war for many years, which the aliens are at fault. They believe the humans should all die, just because they don’t follow the same religion. And they find them primitive. Master Chief is only protecting his planet, not killing all those who don’t agree with him (Covenant).

“Setting: Massive structures of fascist design dot dangerous Asiatic landscapes. The hyper-real graphics are drawn with jarring fluorescent colors. This future world is on the cusp of the ultimate judgment, reminiscent of Biblical End Times. There is no grey area here. You’re either lock step with Master Chief’s agenda of anarchy or you die.”

Master Chief’s “agenda” is not anarchy. It’s protecting his home from the enemy. And there is no Asiatic landscapes in the game. I don’t even think there are any Asian people there.

“Influence: For over a decade, this has been the most popular game on the planet. It has spawned children’s books, comic series, costume festivals, television shows, fan videos, spin-off games and a type of animated pornography known as Machinera. Along the way, it has sold over 100 million copies and has made its creators billions of dollars.”

There are no children’s books, television shows or animated porn. What you are also trying to spell is called Machinima.

“Ontological Imperialism: Halo nags you to ponder the ultimate meaning of the game and thereby the ultimate meaning of your existence. In doing so, it is hijacking the traditional role of Christianity in a young person’s education. Sadly, the answer that Halo offers to this question is that you must live out your life in the here and now, destroying every remnant of the Christian faith and fomenting a New World Order in which everyone is godlike.”

Halo does no such thing. It’s a video game, made only for your enjoyment. It is not trying to destroy Christianity. There is no real religion in the game. Only a made up religion that the creators of the game put in. The player is not trying to destroy that religion either. The plot of Halo is that you are a super-human trying to save your planet from destruction.

Why should it matter if the Cortana appears computer-generated? Does it not depict a women? And she does not look fully naked in the images I have seen, but maybe once one gets deeper in the game she becomes more sexually revealing. But yes, she is a graphically sexual! You can’t deny this.

As for the gangs, when groups of players gather together to play and form their own little group with weapons to crisscross the countryside this absolutely conforms to the definition of a gang.

Finally, we rely on cultural historians and journalists to explain things basic consumers and the public just cannot grasp. Sometimes symbols and storylines are purposefully obscure to confuse. Clearly my work shows that this is the case here. Is it a coincidence that the makers of Halo employ so many religious terms straight out of the Bible? Halo, ark, convenant, flood, etc. Only the naive would think that’s merely a coincidence.

These “gangs” are other people online, that only fight other players. There is no religion going on here, only real people fighting real people. It’s called multilayer. You were right about the book. Didn’t know about them. Halo Legends is a youtube series, not TV. No proof about the porn then not real. And if there is, then it’s fan made and not made by the creators. The Flood is nothing like the Bible flood. These are mutated creatures meant on destroying everything in the universe. They attack alive or dead hosts and control them. Halo (or Halos) are giant structures that when used all together, wipes out all life. The Bible was not the first to come up with the word halo, or flood, or ark, and I’m not even sure covenant is in the bible. The creators created Halo: Combat Evolve 10 years ago for people’s enjoyment. Not destroy some silly young religion.

I think ‘Chef’ Phillip, the compulsive liar, is a perfect case study for why we need prayer and religious study returned to our schools. He is clearly brainwashed talking about ‘only real people fighting real people’ while condemning faith as the reason for all wars. What a complicated, topsy-turvy ethos we give to young people when we don’t tend to their spiritual need.

“Why should it matter if the Cortana appears computer-generated? Does it not depict a women? And she does not look fully naked in the images I have seen, but maybe once one gets deeper in the game she becomes more sexually revealing. But yes, she is a graphically sexual! You can’t deny this.”

Cortana is a sentient computer program, and instead of bashing Halo because she’s drawn/rendered/whatever in a certain way, why not bash the idea of sexualizing women in media to create sales and make it seem as if women are just sex objects? Oh wait, that would humanize women too much for you.

“As for the gangs, when groups of players gather together to play and form their own little group with weapons to crisscross the countryside this absolutely conforms to the definition of a gang.”

So you’re equating a couple of guys who get together on Xbox live and play Halo the same as street gangs who go about and kill people? Damn you’re fucked up in the head.

The books are meant for a mature audience, the animated special you mentioned is meant for mature audiences, and there is no official Halo porn that was made by the creators.

“Finally, we rely on cultural historians and journalists to explain things basic consumers and the public just cannot grasp.”

And clearly you’re not fit to be either.

“Sometimes symbols and storylines are purposefully obscure to confuse. Clearly my work shows that this is the case here. Is it a coincidence that the makers of Halo employ so many religious terms straight out of the Bible? Halo, ark, convenant, flood, etc. Only the naive would think that’s merely a coincidence.”

There are indeed religious terms used in the Halo universe. That’s because that helps make sales. There’s no ‘anti-religion’ campaign taking place, and there are plenty of religious people who play Halo, including Christians.

Your homosexual references are not welcom here. Young people frequent this site and your constant chatter about pulling ‘things’ and ‘looking too deep’ from what is the digestive systems garbage chute is risky and unconscionable commenting.

Which just again shows your cults obsession with human sexuality and the repression of it. Monotheism has done the world a massive injustice with this little notion, so keep your laughable interpretation of female imagery coming

“Ancestors” of Mayans are mowing your land? You live in 1500 BC in central America?
Or are you just using first words that come to your mind. Perhaps you should use the access to Wikipedia you have and check the meaning of the words you are using. Or just by a monolingual English dictionary (you do know what monolingual means?).

Well first of all Harry potter, we both know the problems of time travel. If I did have a time machine “Meso America” in ancient times would be the last place I would want to go. You think the kitchen crew at any TGI fridays could get their friends together and build a temple in the jungle without mortar these days?

Lol @ the Bretheran. I’m not into gaming, not my cup of tea so I wouldn’t know how shite this article is. I’m sure conservative people to that extent wouldn’t play them either, it’s the devil’s game after all. On the other hand, Blanche is looking very sexy, hope you had great birthday hanky panky

Hmm, I recall playing through the first Halo just to check out what all the hype was about. Not really my cup of tea. I think playing the game itself should be punishment enough for the fanbase it’s gathered over the years.

You can’t really say it’s destroying children, because at the end of the day, the box does say 16+. There’s a reason it’s there. So either the child is 16 or the parent bought it. Why?

1. The people that rate the games are prudes. If there’s something that touches on religions, they put a little warning on the game box.
2. Around here in South Africa, they don’t care who buys what games, but in the States they flat out refuse to sell games with high ratings to anyone who looks under the age limit.
3. If a parent bought it for their child, well that’s really the parent’s fault isn’t it?

I can’t help reading this article and thinking back on when rock and roll was called “The Devil’s Music.” This isn’t some insightful piece of writing, it’s someone who’s scared and did not do their homework. I write about video games as a hobby for a website, and I triple check nearly every reference I make.

Game companies are terrified of making anything that would make Christians uncomfortable. Trust me. They’ll have you killing Satan or making fun of any other religions, but not the people with the money. Oh heck no, they won’t go there. Not to mention that the press would rip them to shreds.

It’s not that bad, heck, I played Doom when it came out as a child, and I have not spawned bloodlust with anti-American rage.

I could go on and on about this, but I’ve already broken my personal rules of responding to this kind of written work.

It also doesn’t matter. You’re just writing this for your own glory. Your not going to pull people from playing the game. Neither does this have much to do with Christianity.

If you really want, I’ll sit and play the games with you (despite hating them), and we can go step by step with everything. Don’t judge a book by it’s cover, and don’t judge something by it’s fanbase. I’m not doing that with the Bible, and you should not be doing that to my videogames.

Javier, many products appear to be for adults but are genuinely for children. When big tobacco wanted to sell cigs to teens, they used the Joe Camel cartoon character. In the same vein, Bungies is using the cartoon characters of this game to sell children violence and radical philosophies. Parental warning stickers mean little in a day and age when you can log onto the internet and download whatever you want. Clearly the commenters defending this game on my article are not the most mature kids in the world and thus prove my point.

In any event, I am glad you took the time to write down your thoughts and hope my reply helps you understand the grave mistakes you have made and how such mistakes only foster an underside of liberalism, radicalism and anti-Christian hatred that is truly threatening to turn our America apart.

“Bungie is using the cartoon characters of this game to sell children violence and radical philosophies”

Do you think Bungie has a secret conspiracy against the moral fabric of society, your religion and the intellect of children? If there is some secret agenda (in your mind), have you ever stopped to wonder “why”? But I guess its simply the work of the devil.

You are seriously confusing simple principles of economics, capitalism and market forces with the religious chaos that reigns in your mind.

I cant even begin to explain how delusional I think you are. You write for a website that spreads lies and the anti truth to spread your agenda. You will take anything and wrap it around itself so many times until it conforms to your views. Your a conspiracy theorists of the worst level. I could take care bears, the simpsons, the bible, and say this means this, and this means this, all to promote my beliefs. You know what? I dont, not until some brainwashed crazy person like yourself wastes his time and ours on a article that has no base.

Halo is our generations version of tag. Is it cooler and more evolved than your game of tag was? yes it is. Does it suck for you that you didn’t get to grow up with and understand it? yes it does.

You talk about being blind to the REAL WORLD. However your real world is some delusional place fueled by religious views that were unfortunately forced upon you.

I spent 6 years researching religon, all types of religon not just the one and only true god blah blah blah. Religon is control for stupid people, and you my friend are one of those people. The bible was written 2000 years ago but people have been walking this earth for 10,000+.Instead of ruling people by fear and death, they decided to make faith. Because killing people is bad for the bottom line. Lets make people think this life is a test of some sorts to make it too the next one! if they dont do what we say we can make them think they are going to burn for eternity in the flames of hell! However if they follow what we say they get to live the rest of their life on a happy cloud with beautiful people in robes!

What the hell do you think stupid uneducated people are going to choose> burning in a fire or fluffy clouds?

Ever religion is based on this fact. They were all used as cultural tools to rule a group of people.

The fact is you have to have faith in humanity, your friends, yourself. I have died twice, once at the age of 7 when I was 110% pro religion because I was young and easily influenced. I could make up some fantastical story about seeing some light blah blah blah. truth is it was like I was sleeping, one minute I was there then it was 12 hours later.

I do feel for you because your whole entire life will be wasted on this garbage. while I am out living, experience all the beuatiful things this world has to offer, you will be writing about how a freaking video game is the product of the devil. I my friend will go with a smile on my face due to real experiences. You will go with a fake smile, a smile covered in a think syrup of BRAINWASH.

I know this wont change your mind, and you’ll write some response with fantastical assumptions like the article above. Your life is built around these beliefs so your gonna defend it, not question it. Thats what you guys do. Your views are set up to not allow questioning. Its set up around blind faith, not proof or evidence. So when we ask for it you can just smile and say “faith”…

your entire life will be wasted promoting something that just doesn’t exist. How does that feel?

You have a very Marxist viewpoint of the sacred faith of the majority of the world’s population. They’re just billions of people throughout the entirety of human history, but you, you studied it at college for a few years! They must all be wrong. Thank you for returning to the cave to share Lenin’s “Good News” with us.

Firstly I put down a 100 bucks to say you have no idea what Marx really said about religion.

Secondly, you say: “the sacred faith of the majority of the world’s population” Really? Math problems? The majority of this world’s population is not Christians, your cult has corrupted the minds of about 30% of humanity. Thank dog.

Mr Billings, an opinion is an opinion and I shall not refute that you are entitled to yours, if this is what you believe the game entails then fine. However, if your going to preach so much about your opinion, check your facts. The sheer weight of comments alerting you to the fact that most of your information is entirely wrong should point out why no one credits your article with any worth. I find it difficult to believe that someone, especially a ‘journalist’ can have such a broad view and developed opinion about a piece of media they have clearly never actually experienced. Don’t slander something you know nothing about Mr.Billings, you only serve to discredit yourself.

We’re a dot org organization and don’t receive money for our work so your suggestion is rather foolish. Furthermore, I see people arguing with my faith, but no one pointing out any factual errors in a credible way. Please save the slander for your gaming blogs and Reddit.com.

First off, not all covenants are related to religion
“A covenant is a solemn agreement to engage in or refrain from a specified action”

Halo the object in the game, Is a weapon and built on that weapon is a wild life preserve and research center, it created by an ultra-advanced race of peoples called the forerunners, who are not gods, the covenant simply believed they had ascended to a state like that of a god.

The ARK is called an ark because Like in the story from the bible, it holds animals (and other creatures) to repopulate, though in this case it’s a grand portion of the galaxy. (The rings are also part of this system, containing samples of flora and fauna from around the galaxy) they were created as a final response to extra galactic parasitic aliens.

The forerunners are no god, nor are they the creators of the videogame; they are an alien species not too far from humans (at least in some form) who were technologically advanced far beyond either the covenant or the humans at the point the games take place. But the Rings the “Halos” that the players are trying to escape/destroy killed them. The rings destroy all sentient life in the galaxy (which is why the ark and rings have samples of different flora and fauna)
And like I said, the rings were weapons created as a last resort to a hostile force destroying life and genetic diversity.

You’re understanding of this game, and life and history in general is horrible. The founding fathers of the USA left Europe for religious freedom, not one founding father wanted the USA to be a Christian nation, and they all wanted the country to a free open country accepting of all. but because of you, people who have done nothing wrong, who probably have an equal standard of morals to most people if not a greater standard (though I can’t say that is all inclusive because there are obviously people of every kind that have little or no standards), are afraid to say anything in public, sometimes even afraid to say anything behind closed door because of how unfair and aggressively they are treated, For what? Simply believing in something different, or maybe just not believing at all. Yet even these people with no beliefs continue to work their job, help people here and there and generally just be good people.

Arg, I got off topic.

To put it simply, you don’t understand anything you are talking about in this article your blind arrogant zealotry makes you look ignorant and intolerant.

Something I forgot, Cortana. She is not naked becuase she has no body, she is an artifical intelligence. what you see of her is a projection which if you look closely is streaming bits (1,0) and she isnt the Chiefs Handler. again she is an AI

Cortana is an image of naked woman. I don’t care if she’s flourescent blue on your computer screen, she’s still meant to be sexaul! Please don’t even try to deny the basic facts of life my young friend.

“Which just again shows your cults obsession with human sexuality and the repression of it. Monotheism has done the world a massive injustice with this little notion, so keep your laughable interpretation of female imagery coming”

*Facepalm* okay allow me to share my imput on this situation, firstly i was christian, im babtised and went to a christian school for 7 years, i am now not due to my personal views of the theory which i know referre to as stories. Okay so the halo series, made four years ago by bungie studios. You play as the “cheif petty officer master cheif” which is a rank that one gets in the u.s. army, but it is not his name only a nickname, his reall name is John he is a geneticly altered human not a robot ¬_¬ as part of a super soldier program called spartans, there where 300 but they all got M.i.a’s so he is the last, he is number 117 of 300. the spartans were created br prof Dr catharine halsey, a guinius scientist who put a copy of her mind into an a.i. know as… cortana, she chose John 117 to keep her safe as he was “lucky” her form is of a beutiful woman, in halo 1 she was not so beutiful as she was in halo 2 and 3 because of graphic’s at the time. by you saying that she is a suggestive, and she tricks you into doing things with her looks inst true, by saying that you are sexsist, infact in halo 3 she is not with you the intire game until the last mission, where she is found on an alien ship. Okay so the covenant, they are a religous group of aliens who worship the forunners, who if you played the games would know they are ancient decendents of humans as humans can use there technology, they think the halo’s will take the, on quote “the devine path” but after research cortano tells the humans that it is a weapon that will destroy all sentiant life (living animals, things that have intelegence, not trees etc) so that the flood (a parasite) has no food and dies out due to starvation, NOTE. the forunners, what you compared to as gods, built the halos to stop the flood, they used them once, then repopulated to the universe whn the flood where dead (or whhat they thought was dead as it is found out they survived). so that doesnt make sence whith what you said :/. Now this made me laugh, Machinera ? Holy shit that fucking rich, you mean MACHINEMA, wikiepidia qoutes..

“Machinima (play /məˈʃiːnɨmə/ or /məˈʃɪnɨmə/) is the use of real-time 3D computer graphics rendering engines to create a cinematic production. Most often, video games are used to generate the computer animation. Machinima-based artists, sometimes called machinimists or machinimators, are often fan laborers, by virtue of their re-use of copyrighted materials (see below).

People use halo for fun to make non profit videos for other entertainment for example… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjMYb6lyrmM this is red vs blue, the first halo machinema and one of the first EVER, theyve been making free to view videos for 8 years for fun…

And for porn, yeah… it exists lol, but its not official its only fan made, really creepy fans though, i admit its weird ive seen it ¬_¬ but really, its only problem for christian is its violence my local reverant told me his son plays it so he researched it, he sent a report to the ARCH BISHOP OF CANTERBURY, Who works at the canterbury cathedral. the reverant deemed it, ” too violent for youth, but no religous threat” yeah… i trust the arch bishop more than you pal

AND FINALLY. THIS ARTICLE HAS NOW GOT ONTO BLOGS ONLINE AND AROUND THE WORLD AND NOW THE GAMING COMMUNITY ALL 30ish MILLION OF US ARE NOW LAUGHING ARE ASSES OF AT YOU XD EVEN THE CHRISTIAN ONES, im done, im going to go play Halo xD lol

P.s. BB your as hot as cortana and im not going to listen to the shit you spout :/ stop being a brown nose and get your own opinion on something, not just agreeing withough knowing, Im done.

1st of all, sorry for posting to a such an old article, i discovered this site today. 2nd sorry for my “not so great english”

(Minor story spoilers ahead)

I am confused why you compare Covenant to Evangelical Christians of America. Its an group of alien races who follow 1 specific alien race in an fake journey to salvation (Great journey), they worship ancient race as “GODS”(take notice of plural). Humans refused to accept forerunners as “GODS” that’s why they are in war, humanity is defending themselves still believing in GOD.

and in-game Halo is a super weapon designed to wipe all sentient life from its blast radius in order to starve The flood, made by forerunners, ancient race who are being worshiped by the covenant. And the Great journey is just an mission to fire 1 of 7 halo rings, causing the covenant being wiped.

The ark is capable of wide range extinction, by firing all 7 halo rings at the same time, but its purpose is to destroy the flood, while storing samples of of all living lifeforms and bringing them back after the flood is gone.

About Cortana. She took the look of doctor Halsey, the woman who cloned herself and created Cortana from the brain tissue of those clones. Thats why she looks like a young woman.

i’m gonna stop the monoloque at this point but i can direct you to good source of halo story if you like to actually know something about it.